Here's a great
video of descending into Queenstown, NZ. This would be a great exercise
in trusting the instruments.
Great Video.
There is nothing like being IFR & dropping between the peaks in
Queenstown. There are always lenticular clouds
around the summits and there
is usually lots of turbulence, which does not make for comfortable IFR
approaches.
After a few
real hard approaches into Q I do believe it to be a great Laxative. Sweat
dripping down your shirt and trying to have a calm voice
for the passengers
is not a natural mix.
VFR is great on
a good day, otherwise you have to sneak around the valleys and sometimes they
are full of cloud, and turning in the valley's
is not always an
option.
Milford Sound is even better with a specific rating required before
you can take passengers in there.
Sometimes the
windsocks at each end of the runway face each other and there is no way to
drink a coffee on approach, using full throttle and
a dive bombing seems to
work most times, the only turbulence then being initial contact with the
runway. Stopping before an overrun then
becomes a problem as it is quite
short.
But Q is the
most scenic airfield I have ever been into,
Best view is the
pilots
